San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.